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LAFC Extends Unbeaten Streak to Four with 3-2 Home Win Over Portland

Published on April 28, 2024 under Major League Soccer (MLS)
Los Angeles FC News Release


The Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) extended its unbeaten streak to four games with a dramatic 3-2 win over the Portland Timbers on Saturday night at BMO Stadium. Denis Bouanga, whose 95th-minute goal last week helped LAFC earn a 2-2 draw with the New York Red Bulls, scored in the 92nd minute tonight, breaking a 2-2 deadlock and giving his team the full three points.

The Black & Gold are now 2-0-2 in their last four contests, scoring at least two goals in each, and completing an undefeated April. On the season, the club is now 4-3-3 for 15 points, leaving it in a tie for fifth place in the Western Conference, just three points out of first.

LAFC controlled the match's opening 45 minutes, hitting the post once and having a goal called off following video review. In the 44th minute, Portland defender Kamal Miller deflected a low Denis Bouanga cross into his own goal, making the score 1-0 LAFC.

Five minutes later, in first-half stoppage time, LAFC made it 2-0 when Timothy Tillman took a pass from Cristian Olivera and fired a right-footed shot in off the post with the last kick of the first half, sending LAFC into the break with a 2-0 lead.

The score would stay that way until midway through the second half, when the Timbers scored twice in the span of eight minutes to tie the game, 2-2. Jonathan Rodríguez cut the lead to 2-1 in the 65th minute before Santiago Moreno equalized in the 73rd.

In the 76th minute, the Timbers were reduced to 10 men when Diego Chará, who was playing his 377th regular-season game for Portland (setting a new MLS record for games played with a single club), was shown his second yellow card and sent off.

LAFC would throw numbers forward over the final 15 minutes in search of a winner, and it eventually came in the second minute of second-half stoppage time. The attack started when Kei Kamara saw his header from an Eduard Atuesta corner kick saved. Portland was only able to partially clear the danger, and the ball ended up on the right side of the box at the foot of Bouanga, who hit a right-footed shot that went in off the post to give LAFC a 3-2 victory.

LAFC will be back in action next weekend on Saturday, May 4, when the club travels to Northern California to take on the San Jose Earthquakes. That game, which kicks off at 4:30 p.m. PT, can be seen live on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV and on 710 AM ESPN LA, 980 AM La Mera Mera (Esp) and SiriusXM FC.

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